TO. Greenspiration Events: movies, marches, meetings
Bischoff Angela
greenspi at web.ca
Sun Jan 31 23:23:41 EST 2010
Toronto Greenspiration Events
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The Yes Men Fix the World
Canada Square (Cineplex), 2190 Yonge St. (at Eglinton Ave. W.)
Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu: 4:20, 6:45, 9:15
For more info on the Yes Men, see: http://theyesmen.org/
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HAITI: MARCH FOR HOPE
On Monday, February 1st, from 3:00PM to 6:00PM EST, a March for Hope
will start at City Hall, 100 Queen St. W. and will end at Queens Park
(University Avenue at College Street).
At 4:53PM, a moment of silence will be held in remembrance of over
200,000 victims who lost their lives in the devastating quake.
The March for Hope will end with a vigil in front of Queens Park.
Key note speakers at this event will include Haitian Honorary Consul,
Dr. Eric Pierre and President of the Ontario Black History Society,
Dr. Rosemary Sadlier.
The intention of the march is to raise awareness on three important
legislative points with the hope that the Federal Government will
comply and swiftly expedite help to the current plight in Haiti. This
event is inspired by the precedent set forth in section s37 of the
Immigration Act 1976:
- Broaden the ordinary definition of family under this class to
include: spouse, child (irrespective of age or marital status),
parent, grandparent, grandchild (irrespective of age or marital
status), sibling (irrespective of age or marital status) niece/nephew,
(irrespective of age or marital status), aunt/uncle (irrespective of
age or marital status). The definition also includes step and in-law
relationships
- To permit Haitian refugees currently living in Canada with no actual
status the right to bring a family member while their status is being
revised.
- Start an airlift evacuation of all critically injured Haitians in
need of critical care.
Contact: JIM ARISTIDE C: 416.919.5995 jimmysteed at gmail.com
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Bikeway Network Event Public Notice
Monday February 1, 6:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Metro Hall, 55 John St. Room 308-309
The objective of this meeting is to get community input on proposed
new downtown bikeways that the Transportation Services Cycling
Infrastructure and Programs group is working on for 2010.
Topics will discuss concepts and criteria for new projects, including:
• 2010 bicy cle lanes
• Rush hour sharrow bicycle markings on streetcar routes
• New bicycle lane intersection treatments at signalized
intersections
• Locations for bicycle boxes at intersections
• Updates on the West-End bikeways project
Participants are invited to attend for a brief presentation and
question period with City Staff from 6:30 – 7:00 p.m. From 7:00
p.m. – 9:00 p.m. the floor will be open for the public to view maps,
talk to staff about projects, and submit comments and suggestions.
Visit the city's website at www.toronto.ca/cycling
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Great Streets, Healthy Cities
Public Meeting
8-80 Cities (formerly Walk and Bike for Life) are holding an event
open to the public in the evening of:
Tues. February 2nd from 6:30-8:30pm
at The George Ignatieff Theatre located at 15 Devonshire Pl.
At this event, three leading Car Free Sunday experts will share their
knowledge and enthusiasm for this fantastic program and discuss how
you can help bring Car Free Sundays to your own community. Download
the flyer here.
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Relief, Occupations and the Haiti Crisis:
Canada/US policy and the regional response
Tuesday, February 2, 7 - 9pm
Centre for Social Justice, 489 College St (W of Bathurst), Suite 303
On January 12, Haiti was hit with an earthquake 7.0 on the Richter
scale, leaving possibly 200,000 dead and 3 million affected. Much of
Port-au-Prince, Haiti's capital, is now living in makeshift camps with
their water, food, and health at risk. While many countries around the
world responded with aid, the US and Canada also quickly deployed
troops. This talk will discuss current events and press coverage in
the context of the past decade of Western policy towards Haiti, as
well as the prospects for constructive relief and solidarity work.
Justin Podur is Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at York
University and a member of the Pueblos en Camino Collective. He
visited Haiti in 2005 to study the UN occupation and the government
after the 2004 coup.
Dan Freeman-Maloy is a Toronto-based activist and writer. He studied
Canadian media coverage of the 2004 Haiti coup and has written for
ZNet and other publications.
Sponsored by the Ontario Public Interest Research Group (OPIRG),
Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid, Socialist Project, Toronto Haiti
Action Committee
Toronto New Socialist Group , U of T Equity Studies Students' Union,
Upping the Anti: A journal of theory and action
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The Centre for Women's Studies in Education is delighted to present:
63 Years On - Japanese Military Sexual Slavery and the Lives of the
"Comfort Women"
Documentary Screening & Presentation
Tues. February 2, 7-9 pm
OISE Auditorium (G162) , Main floor, 252 Bloor West , Above the St.
George subway station
Free/donations welcome, wheelchair accessible
Join us and experience this living history and support the elderly
survivors in their quest for justice.
63 Years On, by award-winning Korean director Kim Dong Wong,
introduces five international survivors of Japanese Military Sexual
Slavery.
Traversing contemporary Asia, the documentary interviews five "comfort
women" who reveal their experiences as survivors of the estimated
200,000 sex slaves from 13 different countries used by Japanese
soldiers during the Second World War. Recruited for duty while still
in their teens, all five women have gruelling stories to tell.
The film will be followed with a panel discussion by Angela Lytle,
recently returned from three years working with "comfort women"
survivors at the House of Sharing in South Korea, and Joseph Wong and
Flora Chong of Toronto Alpha.
Co-hosted with Toronto ALPHA and the House of Sharing, South Korea (www.torontoalpha.org
, www.houseofsharing.org)
Email cwse at utoronto.ca for more information, or join our Facebook
event group at http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=237762257431&ref=ts
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REPORT BACK FROM COPENHAGEN & ECOLOGICAL REFUGEES
Wednesday, February 3, 12:00pm - 3:00pm
OISE Rm. 4414, 252 Bloor Street West - St. George Subway
A report back from a member of the U of T student delegation to
Copenhagen this past December, Robert Stupka, and a lecture on the
topic of Ecological Refugees by Prof. Laura Westra.
Hosted by Science for Peace http://www.facebook.com/event.phpeid=279873609016
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Report back from the United Nations Climate Change Conference in
Copenhagen
with Dave Martin, Climate and Energy Coordinator of Greenpeace Canada
Wednesday, February 3, 7:00 PM
Medical Sciences Building, 1 King’s College Circle, Room 2172
University of Toronto Campus
Dave Martin has 25 years of experience working in the Canadian non-
profit sector on energy-related issues, including conservation,
renewable technologies, nuclear power, nuclear weapons proliferation
and climate change. He has been a researcher, policy analyst and
campaigner for several environmental groups. He has spoken widely on
energy issues and has served as a consultant in various regulatory
proceedings. He was Research Director for the former Nuclear
Awareness Project from 1996 to 2000, and was a policy advisor on
energy issues for Sierra Club Canada from 2000 to 2004. Since July
2004, Dave has been Climate and Energy Coordinator for Greenpeace
Canada.
http://www.meetup.com/PostCarbonTorontoMeetup/calendar/12417185/
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The NFB Mediatheque and The Canadian Institute for Environmental Law
and Policy present:
THIS LAND
as a part of our monthly GREEN SCREENS program
Wednesday, February 3 at 7 PM
FREE ADMISSION
Winner, Best Canadian Short Form Film, Planet in Focus Environmental
Film Festival, 2009
In March 2007, seven Canadian and Inuit rangers and one female
documentary filmmaker set out to cover more than 2000 km of the
harshest terrain on
the planet. They confront blizzards, labyrinths of crushed sea ice and
near-impassable glaciers, with temperatures hovering around -50°C, to
raise a flag on the northernmost tip of Canadian soil (a mere 412 km
from the North Pole). With a mesmerizing soundtrack by Nunavut-born
singer and narrator Tanya Tagaq and spectacular footage of the Arctic
landscape, Dianne Whelan's documentary This Land captures the epic
adventure with raw immediacy.
Join us after the screening for a panel discussion.
NFB MEDIATHEQUE | 150 John St. , Toronto | 416.973.3012 | NFB.ca/
mediatheque
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Social Planning Toronto and Toronto Open Budget present:
City Budget Process 101
Wednesday, February 3 from 6-9 PM
North York Memorial Community Hall, 5150 Yonge Street at North York
Centre subway
Every year, Toronto City Council passes capital and operating budgets
that identify priorities and guide the City's spending for the year.
How does it all work and how could it work better?
Join us for this informative and interactive workshop to:
*Learn how the City of Toronto budget process works
*Find out how you can get involved
*Share your ideas for how we can make the process more open and
inclusive
Guest Speakers: City of Toronto Budget Chief Shelley Carroll
Toronto Open Budget Speaker
Additional speaker to be announced
Refreshments provided.
This venue is wheelchair-accessible.
All are welcome but registration is required.
Please register at www.socialplanningtoronto.org<http://www.socialplanningtoronto.org/
> or call Mary Micallef at (416) 351-0095 x251.
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Angela Davis at U of T
Thursday, February 4, 6:30pm - 9:30pm
Bloor Cinema, 506 Bloor Street West, Toronto
Angela Davis is known internationally for her ongoing work to combat
all forms of oppression in the U.S. and abroad. Over the years, as a
student, teacher, writer, scholar, activist and organizer -- and even
prisoner -- she has become a living witness to the historical
struggles of two generations of American life. In 1969, Angela Davis
came to national attention after being removed from her teaching
position at UCLA as a result of her social activism and her membership
in the Communist Party. In 1970 she was placed on the FBI's Ten Most
Wanted List on false charges, and was the subject of an intense police
search that drove her underground -- culminated in one of the most
famous trials in recent American history. During her sixteen-month
incarceration, a massive international "Free Angela Davis" campaign
was organized, leading to her acquittal in 1972.
During the last twenty-five years, Prof. Davis has lectured in all of
the fifty United States, as well as in Africa, Europe, the Caribbean,
and the former Soviet Union. She is the author of five books,
including the campus classics Angela Davis: An Autobiography and
Women, Race & Class; her other books include Blues Legacies and Black
Feminism and The Angela Y. Davis Reader. Her articles and essays have
appeared in numerous journals and anthologies.
Currently, Davis is a tenured professor at the University of
California, Santa Cruz. Her long-standing commitment to prisoners'
rights dates back to her involvement in the campaign to free the
Soledad Brothers, which led to her own arrest and imprisonment. Today,
she remains an advocate of prison abolition and has developed a
powerful critique of racism in the criminal justice system. She is a
member of the Advisory Board of the Prison Activist Resource Center,
and is working on a comparative study of women's imprisonment in the
US, the Netherlands, and Cuba.
University of Toronto Students' Union - http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2218399704
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Food Justice Unconference
Fri. February 5th, 4-8 p.m.
International Student Centre, 33 St. George, U of T.
Dinner will be provided by the most awesome Hot Yam!
This event is an attempt to consolidate and move forward food justice
initiatives introduced at the last Food Justice Unconference in October.
Everyone is free to bring new ideas to discuss or organize around.
Groups which will be present include:
- Food Services and Sustainability
- Campus Bee-Keeping
- Building a Food Justice Committee at U of T
- First Nations Food Security
- No One Is Illegal Food Committee
As well, The University of Toronto Student's Union Haiti Coalition is
attempting to raise $50,000+ for relief efforts in Haiti. We will be
collecting donations at the Unconference.
This event is the result of a collaboration between the University of
Toronto Office of Student Life, Hart House, Food Services, the Hot
Yam, and many awesome people in the Toronto community. Please come
share, discuss, and contribute to building a just food system.
Don't forget to register at www.studentlife.utoronto.ca/programs - we
need to have a sense of how much food to make!
Walk-ins are welcome of course, but registration would be great.
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=262757433220
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Integrative Medicine for the Treatment of Depression and Bipolar
Disorder: An Orthomolecular Approach
Public Lecture
Friday, February 5, 2010 at 7:30 pm
Medical Sciences Building, JJR MacLeod Auditorium
1 King’s College Circle (Queen’s Park Subway), University of Toronto
Presented by James Greenblatt, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Walden
Behavioral Care, Waltham, Massachusetts
This lecture will examine the role of nutrition in the development and
treatment of depression and bipolar disorder.
Topics covered include:
Nutrient deficiencies connected to depression and bipolar disorder
Food allergies, including Celiac disease, and mood disorders
Minimizing drug side effects with nutrient and herbal supplementation
And much more valuable information!
Admission is $20.00
Call 416-733-2117 to purchase tickets I Email
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Public Forum:
China, Japan and the U.S.: Together in Crisis?
Friday February 5, 7:30 PM
Koffler Auditorium,, 569 Spadina Crescent, Toronto.
Ho-fung Hung, Department of Sociology, University of Indiana and
editor of China and the Transformation of Global Capitalism (2009) and
author of 'America's Head Servant? The PRC's Dilemma in the Global
Crisis,' New Left Review (2009) and 'The Rise of China and the Global
Overaccumulation Crisis,' Review of International Political Economy
(2008).
R. Taggart Murphy, Graduate School of Business Sciences, University of
Tsukuba, Japan, and author of Japan's Policy Trap (2002) and the The
Weight of the Yen (1996), and editor of Japan Focus.
Johanna Brenner, Department of Sociology, Portland State University,
and author of Women and the Politics of Class (2000) and Rethinking
the Political: Women, Resistance, and the State (1995).
Sam Gindin, Department of Political Science, York University, and
author of Global Capitalism and American Empire (2004) and The
Canadian Auto Workers (1995).
Sponsored by: Socialist Register, Socialist Project, and Centre for
Social Justice
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Haiti Past and Present & Film (The Agronomist)
Friday, February 5th, 1 - 5 p.m.
Location: Nat Taylor Cinema, Main Floor Ross Building, York University
Students in Solidarity with Haiti and the York United Black Student
Alliance invite you to join us for an afternoon to critically explore
the historical and political issues related to the present crisis in
Haiti.
Yves Engler(author from Montreal) and BC Holmes(recent THAC delegation
in Haiti) will discuss the present crisis in Haiti.
The talk will be followed by a film screening of the AGRONOMIST.
There will be also time for a lengthy Q&A
>Read more here<
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Solidarity with the Haitian People: A film series on Haiti’s fight
for self-determination
Bitter Cane (1983). Directed by Jacques Arcelin
Fri. February 5, 7 p.m.
OISE, 252 Bloor Street West (next to the St. George subway station),
Room 2-211 (2nd floor)
Bitter Cane is a timeless documentary classic about the exploitation
and foreign domination of the Haitian people. From peasant coffee
farms in the rugged tropical mountains to steamy U.S.-owned sweatshops
in the teeming capital, the film takes the viewer on a journey through
Haitian history to a deeper understanding of that country’s political
economy.
Speaker: Dr. Melanie Newton, Department of History, University of
Toronto
Sponsors: CUPE Local 3902, Toronto Haiti Action Committe, CUPE Local
3907, International Solidarity Committee and Racial Justice Committee
(CUPE Ontario), A Different Booklist, Association of Part-time
Undergraduate Students (APUS)
CONTACT: cupe3907 at gmail or call at (416) 978-2403
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Fundraiser:
Students 4 Haiti Benefit Concert
Friday February 5, 9 pm.
El Mocambo, 464 Spadina Avenue, Toronto.
Pay What You Can, Suggested Donation: $10 - $20
The York Federation of Students, the University of Toronto Students'
Union, the Ryerson Students' Union, The Continuing Education Students'
Association of Ryerson, Students in Solidarity with Haiti & the
Toronto Haiti Action Committee proudly presents:
STUDENTS 4 HAITI - A night where students across Toronto are coming
together with the goal of raising $ 10 000 for the Haiti Relief
Efforts with silent auctions and raffles.
Featuring Bishop Brigante!!!!
Also featuring D-Sisive, Rick Kidd, Mindbender, Muneshine and many,
many more....
Hosted by MC Mohammad Ali | Beats by DJ Dopey & DJ Adverb
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Rally to keep alive the issues surrounding the fallout of Canada's
Indian Residential Schools
Where Are the Children? Where is the Justice?
Sunday, Feb 7, beginning at 10 am outside of the Metropolitan United
Church (56 Queen St East at Bond St, east of Yonge St), and continuing
on to St Mikes Catholic Church (200 Church St) to arrive around 12:15 pm
Bring your spirit, bring your voices, bring your drums, bring your
slogans!
Over 150,000 children were forcibly removed from their communities by
the Government, the R.C.M.P and the Churches during a 150 year period
of time from infancy through to their teenage years, and were put into
Canada's Indian Residential Schools. There was a deliberate intent to
bring about their demise through the spread of disease, physical,
mental and emotional trauma, neglect, and cultural theft: in other
words GENOCIDE.
More than 50,000 of these children never survived this ordeal, and
their bodies have not been accounted for.
Many children were buried on site of these "schools" in unmarked graves.
Our demand from 2 years ago to the Churches to fully disclose the
death & burial information of these children remains unanswered!
RALLY to bring attention to the lack of justice that Canada's Truth
and Reconciliation Commission is bringing to the continued anguish
that is the result of Indian Residential Schools.
www.hiddenfromhistory.org
1-888-265-1007
Friends & Relatives of the Disappeared - Toronto Branch
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Organic Farming Certificate program meets growing demand for farmer
training
More and more urbanites want to become farmers and they are looking
for training that will fast track their entry into agriculture.
Everdale Farm is launching an innovative training program called the
Organic Farming Certificate (OFC) program.
For more info: Everdale Organic Farm & Learning Centre
gavin at everdale.org
519-855-4859 x104
www.everdale. org
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Upcoming Food/Politics Conference:
Free Food! Interrogating Perception, Choice and Progress in the
Liberation of our Food Supply
March 20th 2010 - 9:30 am to 5pm, 429 Brunswick, Toronto
Feb. 1 deadline for submissions / abstracts
Presented by the Toad Lane Vegan Cooperative house, this conference is
all about asking - what is “Free” in our food? How is it
subsidized, and how does that affect what kind of food choices are
readily available to us? And to what extent is our food “unfree”
– how much domination of animals and workers occurs such that it
becomes “easy” to eat certain diets and difficult to stick to
others? Where is choice left when we are so separated from the
realities of production? What does it matter what I eat? How can my
choices have broader social implications, how can they be steps on the
way to attaining ideals which are not yet universalized? And what is
progress – social, technological – and what about moral progress?
If you are interested in doing a presentation - we are still accepting
submissions up till February 1st. Please send us an abstract of what
you'd like to do (it doesn't need to be complete yet). You can give a
slide presentation, facilitate a discussion, or giving a cooking
demonstration (we have cooking facilities in the conference area). In
other words, you can do just about anything that takes 20-30 minutes!
Check out our website at http://freefoodconference.wordpress.com/ for
updates!
Or find our event on facebook: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=154500244228&ref=ts
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